Map of UFO encounters

Explanations

This is a flex dashboard analysing the ufo sightings in the UK in the XX Century. The dashboard is divided into 3 parts:

• Map of ufo sightings along with number of encounters and their lengths
• Analysis of most common places and shapes of ufo sightings
• Analysis of descriptions of the ufo sightings

The dataset is taken from https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-06-25

Map interpretation

The map on the left shows the places, 3 most common shapes shapes and lengths of encounters in the UK.

• The most common place of UFO encounters is London with over 200 encounters
• There were far fewer encounters in the north of the UK than south

Places

Box

2009

Wordcloud

100 most common words in the descriptions of the encounters:

Most common word appearing in the descriptions is 44. Other common words are related to collors, lights and shapes of the UFOs. The emotions expressed in the descriptions were overally positive with high levels of trust and anticipation.

Emotions